The Sit-In Movement in Fayetteville, N.C.
The Rev. William Moore
The Rev. William Moore of Philadelphia was a college student in North Carolina in the early 1960s. Inspired by the Greensboro sit-in, he and his classmates staged sit ins in Fayetteville. He recalls, "We would go into the stores, we would sit at the counter, and we would ask for a burger, french fries, and a Coke. And they would ask us to leave, please leave, and we did not leave, we just sat there." Read more on the Rev. William Moore: Sitting In and Taking a Stand: A Civil Rights Activist's 61-Year Journey.
For more on the Student Sit-In Movement, see:
Moments in Civil Rights History - Student Sit-In Organizers Expelled
Moments in Civil Rights History - The Sit-In Movement
For personal accounts of the Student Sit-In Movement, see:
Elaine Turner - A Civil Rights Protester
Purnell Steen - Denver's Sit In Movement
Frank Smith - We Changed America
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